Antonio Jorge Goncalvez made over 300 sketches of random people in subway trains in 10 cities. (via Neatorama).

An Arabic language Discovery Channel is to be launched soon.

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Last night, Raja al-Sanie’, author of the controversial novel Banat al-Riaydh (The Girls of Riyadh), was interviewed by Turki al-Dakheel on AlArabiya TV. A rerun of the interview will be aired today at 1100 GMT. I’m still in the middle of the novel. I’ll write about it when I finish it.

For those of you interested in Web 2.0 and all that stuff, here is a good post by Mike Arrington about ten companies that would make our lives on the web much easier.

The latest of our religious police’s creations is to lash boys who harass girls in public in the same place of the harassment, right away. The columnist Gainan al-Ghamdi (Arabic) provokes a good question: What if the one who is harassing was the girl? Are they going to lash her right away? I think the problem with the religious police is that they have no limits. They can do whatsoever they want, and whenever someone stands up to question what they do, he is immediately accused of opposing Islam.

Mohammed Jazairy questions the concept of charity in the minds of Saudi youth, and how it is limited to donations only. I think other parts of our community should take responsibility of this. Charitable organizations, schools, hospitals, and even companies, should help the young generation to help in several forms other than money.